An Israeli news outlet has claimed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah may have “suffocated” from toxic gases inside his secret bunker after it was demolished by an Israeli airstrike.
Officials pulled Nasrallah out of the bunker on Sunday, finding his body intact with no visible wounds on him, Israel’s Channel 12 reported.
This suggested he was buried by rubble after 80 tons of bunker-busting bombs were dropped on his fortified hideout on Friday,
The Israeli outlet claims the cave-in caused the 64-year-old to suffocate and die in “agony” as the room filled with fumes from the smoke and explosions.
Medical and security officials who pulled Nasrallah’s body out of the hole in southern Beirut, however, told Reuters that he was most likely killed by blunt trauma due to the explosions.